Comment out any references to Fluxbox (or Openbox, for that matter). Start X from a terminal with startx, and voila! Beryl running alone.

So what’s the catch? No menus. No panels. No right-click menus. No access to a terminal. You’re kind of stuck, trying to remember how to send a terminal command from a tty with the output to the X server and … urk!😯

You can circumvent that unfortunate empty and meaningless state by spawning a terminal window in the .xinitrc file, like I did in the screenshot. And if you’re adept at the terminal, you can get anything done.😉

Or you could add something like fbpanel or lxpanel or perlpanel to your setup, do a little text editing, and you’ve got an exceptionally lightweight Beryl system running with just as many doo-dads as the Gnome crowd.

So yes, it is possible to run just Beryl alone atop X, and have a meaningful computing experience. It’s just not what you wanted: Beryl with Fluxbox (or Openbox, for that matter).